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I think that the big idea for this passage, The Wild Life of Christian the Lion by Tod Olson, is to let the lions to be free. “Ace Bourke and John Rendall walked into Harrods and saw a lion cub trapped in a small cage.” They wanted him to be free, and they immediately bought him. But they did not want to keep him forever. One of the reasons I know this is because John said, “We knew we couldn’t betray him by putting him in a zoo.” They wanted him to be free. They were hooked up with people in Kenya to let Christian go. One of them was named Adamson. Adamson was sure that Christian was thriving in his new environment. Also in the poem Wild Home by Rebecca Kai Dotlich I think it has the same big Idea. One of The reasons that I know this is that
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